{"id":225,"date":"2015-07-23T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panseeatta.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/23\/afterglow\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:56:01","slug":"afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panseeatta.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/23\/afterglow\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterglow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/panseeatta.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/a503c-afterglow3.gif\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/panseeatta.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/4d12a-afterglow3.gif?resize=320%2C180\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\">(click to view full size)<\/div>\n<p>I first saw this painting at the AGO, at a 2009 exhibit of works by Hunt and other Pre-Raphaelites. I didn&#8217;t need to read its title to know that it was a painting of an Egyptian woman; even from across the room I felt a kind of recognition in it. That feeling is so rare! It stuck with me for years, until I started<br \/>\nresearching this project, and then I stumbled across this quote from a critical text written not long after the painting was first created (in the mid-1800&#8217;s). I had seen this painting, and thought I saw some part of myself in it&#8211; but the man who painted it and his contemporaries didn&#8217;t see that at all. They didn&#8217;t even see a person. They barely even saw an animal. I had looked into a mirror of sorts and had my reflection inverted into something monstrous, forcing me to see that in myself, too.<\/p>\n<p>The integrity of the borders of your own self-definition are at stake when you try to write about your own body as theory. If this was an example of &#8216;good&#8217; representation, then what does it look like when it&#8217;s &#8216;bad&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click to view full size) I first saw this painting at the AGO, at a 2009 exhibit of works by Hunt and other Pre-Raphaelites. 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